Human Rights Defenders Timeline 2005-2015 #10YearsDefending
8 September 2015
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project
The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project
In light of the visible trend of shrinking space for civil society and the persistent targeting of human rights defenders and their work, the ACHPR created the Study Group on Freedom of Association and Assembly, whose report was presented during its 58th Ordinary Session.
(Banjul, The Gambia) A compilation of country studies examining the
Human Rights Agenda (HURIA), The National Coalition for Human Rights Defenders-Kenya (NCHRD-K) and the East and Horn of Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) has learnt, with shock, of the intention of the Inspector General of Police of Kenya to freeze the bank accounts of two highly respected Kenyan human rights organizations.
Business must be booming for teargas suppliers in Africa. Many of the continent’s law enforcement agencies have shown a fondness for excessive force, including through the use of less-than-lethal crowd control tactics, such as teargas. Those on the receiving end are often citizens active and brave enough to exercise their right to protest in defense of their human rights, and the rights of others.
Ahead of Kenya’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council tomorrow, CIVICUS and the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) urge the government to stop its onslaught against civil society and urgently address backsliding on civic freedoms.
Declaration of the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights
55th Ordinary Session of the Africa Commission on Human and
Today, 10th March 2014, Mrs Margaret Sekaggya addressed the UN
Kenyan police must immediately release Muchangi Nyaga, a human rights